The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-02-17
Where Does Bob Taylor Stand2

It's lie! It's a livid, limping,
lurid liei
What is a lie?
Why, that Gov. Bob Taylor is
not democrat
What do you think! Bob Taylor
has been read out of the democratic
party-the man who is closer to
the heart Of the people and comes
nearer filing the ideal of pure all
wool democrat any other man who
has lived since Jimmie Jones.
What monstrous absurdity and
stupidity, to attempt to GUST this
mau from his place in the affections
of the people! But the American
has done it. Bob Taylor is no long
err a democrat, according to Col
Cooper (who led the Russell bolt)
and Col. Tolley (who leads the
whisky bolt). Why? Because he
favors the Blair bill, they say.
He doesn't say that he favors the
Blair bill, but even if he did, does
that make him less a Democrat
The democratic senators were for it,
10 to 6. The house of representa-
tives is for it o-day over two-thirds
and its enemies dare not let it come
to a vote. Every other democratic
state in the great American union
is for it to-day. And yet because
the American imagines Gov. Fay
lor is for it, it dumps him heels
over head out Of the party.
But he didn't say he was for it.
Read what he says and see what
he is condemned upon:
By thorough reformation of our
| revenue system we may SO improve
our finances as to be able to letter
| provide Tor the support of our public
schools; but complete and sufficient
provision can hardly be made until our
taxable wealth shall have been greatly
increased by more extensive develop
ment OF our resources. But until tilis
| shall take place where shall we look
for a complement to the provision We
are able to make? For the children of
the present who cannot wait, how shall
we supply the great deficit in our
school fund? The masses of our peo-
pie are anXiously turning their eyes to
the general government for aid.
My sense OF duty to the children Of
the state eompels me to say that if there
is a surplus of money in the national
treasury not applicable to the payment
oithe national debt, the appropriation
OF the same for this purpose, stripped OF
the conditions of federal supervision,
would be all inestimable blessing to
them.
He opposed the Blair bill in his
canvass because he was Informed,
day after day by the American,
that there was no surplus and that
the bill involved federal supervis-
ion. He is opposed to it yet il
that Is true.
But it is not true. The Ameri-
can deceived him. There is a sur
plus, and the believing statesmen
Who proclaimed all over the state
that there was none were deceiving
and misleading the people.
Gov. Taylor refuses to be mislead
, longer when he finds that the truth
J has not been told.
1t is not a Blair bill question
Gov. Taylor says nothing about it
He asserts, what everybody knows
that the people are looking for ma
tional aid and want it and expect
it, when it ls;offered without fedora
control of schools That's the
whole of 1t. It's not question O
democracy-it's a question of fact
} Are the people going to be lee
into a hue and cry against the gov
ernor? Isn't it shameful that the
governor should be lnsulted by s
newspaper asserting right in his
, face that he has deserted his part,
and his principles and perjuret
himself, that he is tool and pup
pet and mugwump?
The people will stand by Boil
Taylor. He hasn't endorsed tn,
} Blair bill and he doesn't deserve tt
be insulted and outraged thus. Hi
} expression was simply an homes
: outburst of Immaculate truth ant
! conviction, He is a big Drained
= pushing, wide-awake young demo
: crat and he is gong to make Ten
7 nessee keep up with the procession
When he is convinced that he il
right Lhe goes at it like "a shoust
; afre and he goes in to win.
Even if he had changed his opin
ion, he deserves praise for beins
brave enough to correct himself
= There is development of thought
as well as of material things. Ma
ture keeps up an equilibrium. Boil
Taylor is the leader in Tennessee,
and his thoughts and ideas mus
keep ahead in the great rush o
things. He is daring and saga
cious statesman and he sees int
the future and he leaps forward in
to the breech and beckons his lie
gions to follow. 1t is a new, strange
thing to see a public man witt
opinions of his own. We have
been used to seeing them GROUND
out and crammed into our leaders
and they dared not resist.
Bob Taylor's offense TO day il
= his failure to go over to the Ameri-
can office and ask for directions.
: Brethren, amt it ridiculous
Who is goiug back on the govern
, or? What has he done. And ye
it is solemnly proclaimed that he il
traitor and his head is demanded
: Bob Taylor is peoples man
fashioned after the similitude of 6
statesman, incorruptible, daring ant
full of purest democratic instinct
and the assaults upon him will b.
resented by an outraged and dis
gusted people when he appeals tt
them for Judgment between him anC
his accusers.
Dishonest Legislation.
The republicans in congress ar